06/23/10
Rudd Sends In ‘Porn' Police
NSW adult (sex) shops raided by police in a continuing crackdown on adult entertainment by the Rudd government.
So far this year, over a dozen adult retail, wholesale and production outlets around the country have been raided and had their stock confiscated, under direction from the federal Attorney General’s department. There are at least another dozen in the pipeline. Last month an Oxford st (Sydney) adult shop owner became the first person to be sent to jail in modern times for a censorship offence. Last month also saw Victoria’s largest producer of X18+ material, Abby Winters.com, prosecuted for making X18+ films. They are currently relocating to a more tolerant European country.
Australian Sex Party President, Fiona Patten, said the raids were an outrageous undermining of the federal government’s own Classification Act. “Officers from the Attorney General’s department are, on the one hand, classifying X18+ films for all Australians to sell and possess and then turning around and dobbing in adult shops, websites and producers in the states who deal in this product”, she said. “The federal government should be supporting the spirit and principles of its own legislation rather than the outdated and highly politicized laws of other jurisdictions.”
She said that the net effect of Commonwealth public servants being used as ‘porn police’ and paid to roam around the nation dobbing in adult shops for selling what they naturally sell was a proliferation of hard core DVD sales in newsagents and suburban video libraries. She estimated that one in three suburban video libraries around the country now sold or hired X rated DVDs and that there had been no prosecutions of newsagents or video stores for this offence in the past 12 months.
She said that there was evidence to support the notion that this was in part, a revenge attack, emanating out of the Federal Attorney General’s office, following her party’s much publicised opposition to the proposed internet filter and the sneaky back door inclusion of ‘pornography’ on traveller’s Incoming Passenger Cards. Following Google’s recent attack on the internet filter, the Australian government launched a police investigation into the activities of Google in Australia.
Patten said that despite the activities of the Federal Attorney General’s office, in concert with local police forces, the Australian Sex Party would not back down on its campaign against the alarming escalation of a conservative moral agenda from both major parties .
At the two recent by-elections in the seats of Higgins and Bradfield the Sex Party polled nearly 4 % of the vote in what are two very conservative areas. The next Federal election will swing on marginal seats across Australia and the key may very well be decided by the flow of preferences from the Australian Sex Party.
Australian Sex Party President, Fiona Patten, said the raids were an outrageous undermining of the federal government’s own Classification Act. “Officers from the Attorney General’s department are, on the one hand, classifying X18+ films for all Australians to sell and possess and then turning around and dobbing in adult shops, websites and producers in the states who deal in this product”, she said. “The federal government should be supporting the spirit and principles of its own legislation rather than the outdated and highly politicized laws of other jurisdictions.”
She said that the net effect of Commonwealth public servants being used as ‘porn police’ and paid to roam around the nation dobbing in adult shops for selling what they naturally sell was a proliferation of hard core DVD sales in newsagents and suburban video libraries. She estimated that one in three suburban video libraries around the country now sold or hired X rated DVDs and that there had been no prosecutions of newsagents or video stores for this offence in the past 12 months.
She said that there was evidence to support the notion that this was in part, a revenge attack, emanating out of the Federal Attorney General’s office, following her party’s much publicised opposition to the proposed internet filter and the sneaky back door inclusion of ‘pornography’ on traveller’s Incoming Passenger Cards. Following Google’s recent attack on the internet filter, the Australian government launched a police investigation into the activities of Google in Australia.
Patten said that despite the activities of the Federal Attorney General’s office, in concert with local police forces, the Australian Sex Party would not back down on its campaign against the alarming escalation of a conservative moral agenda from both major parties .
At the two recent by-elections in the seats of Higgins and Bradfield the Sex Party polled nearly 4 % of the vote in what are two very conservative areas. The next Federal election will swing on marginal seats across Australia and the key may very well be decided by the flow of preferences from the Australian Sex Party.
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